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COMETS. 



AN ACCOUNT OP AIL THE COMETS WHOSE OEBITS HAVE NOT BEEN CALCULATED. 



BY G. E. CHAMBERS. 

 (Continued from Page 307.) 



1702. [i.] Numerous navigators report seeing a comet in 

 the southern hemisphere, between February 20 and March 1. 

 On February 28 the tail was 48° long. At 8h. p.m. in latitude 

 35° 10' N. and longitude 116° 45' the comet bore S. of W. 

 20° 30', altitude 8° 40'. On all occasions it was seen in the 

 evening after sunset. Maraldi, at Rome, saw the tail for 

 several days at the end of February and beginning of March. 

 — (Struyck, Vervolg, Amsterdam, 1753, p. 50.) 



1733. On May 17 and 18, a comet was seen by several 

 navigators off the Cape of Good Hope, in the N.W.JW. 

 quarter. — (Struyck, p. 61 .) 



1742. [ii.] On April 11, a comet is recorded to have been 

 seen in the S.E. by several Dutch navigators, at sea, off the 

 Cape of Good Hope. On April 14 the tail was 30° long. — 

 (Struyck.) 



1748. [iii.] On April 24, a Dutch navigator, at the Cape 

 of Good Hope, saw a comet at the beginning of Aries, rise in 

 the E4N.E. at 4h. a.m. This is probably the comet (rendered 

 invisible at the Cape by a northerly motion) which Kinder- 

 manus saw on April 28, at 2h. a.m. at an elevation of 8° above 

 the horizon, in a straight line with 8 and a Trianguli and the 

 lighted star of Aries, in longitude 80°, latitude + 28°, and 

 declination + 50°. On May 3, between llh. and midnight, 

 the comet was near Perseus, and within the circle of perpetual 

 apparition. — (Struyck, p. 100.) 



1750. Between January 21 and January 25, Wargentin 

 observed a comet below e and Pegasi. — (Tables Astrono- 

 miques de Berlin, i.) 



1783. On December 18, Sir W. Herschel observed a 

 nebula lm. preceding S Ceti and ^° N. of that star. He de- 

 scribes it as small and cometic. In his son's great catalogue 

 of 18(54, this object is set down as really a comet, not having* 

 been since found, though looked for. 



1808. [i.] On February 6, Pons discovered a small faint 

 comet between the neck of Serpens and Libra. It was only 

 visible three days, becoming lost in the moonlight. Its move- 

 ment was rapid and towards the S. — (Astron. Nach., No. 149, 

 vol. viii.) 



1808. [iv.] On July 3, Pons discovered a comet in Camelo- 



